比尔•布莱森，世界知名的非虚构作家，1951年出生于美国艾奥瓦州，曾任职于伦敦《泰晤士报》与《独立报》，同时也为《纽约时报》、《国家地理杂志》等撰文。作品主要包括旅游类随笔、幽默独特的科普作品——比如《万物简史》、《母语》等等，横跨多种领域，皆为非学院派的幽默之作。他的作品诙谐嘲谑的风格堪称一绝，整体上举重若轻，能让普通读者产生很强的认同感，不失为雅俗共赏的典范，深受读者喜爱，也获得很高的评价。每部作品均高踞美国、英国、加拿大畅销排行榜前茅。作为在英国生活了二十多年的美国人，他的作品又兼具了开朗风趣、绝不怕粗俗的美式调侃和冷峻犀利、一针见血的英式嘲讽，令人读来捧腹，不忍释卷。

比尔•布莱森，世界知名的非虚构作家，1951年出生于美国艾奥瓦州，曾任职于伦敦《泰晤士报》与《独立报》，同时也为《纽约时报》、《国家地理杂志》等撰文。作品主要包括旅游类随笔、幽默独特的科普作品——比如《万物简史》、《母语》等等，横跨多种领域，皆为非学院派的幽默之作。他的作品诙谐嘲谑的风格堪称一绝，整体上举重若轻，能让普通读者产生很强的认同感，不失为雅俗共赏的典范，深受读者喜爱，也获得很高的评价。每部作品均高踞美国、英国、加拿大畅销排行榜前茅。作为在英国生活了二十多年的美国人，他的作品又兼具了开朗风趣、绝不怕粗俗的美式调侃和冷峻犀利、一针见血的英式嘲讽，令人读来捧腹，不忍释卷。

此書是作者九○年代的不列顛獨行回顧。 記錄了作者對於居住在不列顛島上長達二?年的生活點滴。以其風趣幽默的筆調，讓讀者瞭解當地的風俗民情以及其經歷的各種奇特有趣的生活。文中對於人、事、物荒謬面的細膩觀察與生動的刻畫，引得書迷捧腹大笑不已。

After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson took the decision to move back to the States for a while, to let his kids experience life in another country, to give his wife the chance to shop until 10 p.m. seven nights a week, and, most of all, because he had read the 3.7 million Americans believed that they had been abducted by aliens at one time or another, and it was thus...(展开全部)

此書是作者九○年代的不列顛獨行回顧。 記錄了作者對於居住在不列顛島上長達二?年的生活點滴。以其風趣幽默的筆調，讓讀者瞭解當地的風俗民情以及其經歷的各種奇特有趣的生活。文中對於人、事、物荒謬面的細膩觀察與生動的刻畫，引得書迷捧腹大笑不已。

Depicts the changes that occur on a small island as the seasons come and go, as day changes to night, and as a storm approaches.

There is a little island in the ocean—and this book is about how it is on that little island, how the seasons and the storm and the day and night change it, how the lobsters and seals and gulls and everything else live on it, and what the kitten who comes to visit finds out about it.

Once there was a little island in the ocean. That little island changes as the seasons come and go. The storm and the day and night change it. So do the lobsters and seals and gulls that stop by. Then one day a kitten visits the little island and learns a secret that every child will enjoy.

Philip Anderson was educated at University High School in Urbana, Illinois, at Harvard (BS 1943, PhD 1949), and further educated at Bell Laboratories, where his career (1949-1984) coincided with the greatest period of that remarkable institution. Starting in 1967, he shared his time with Cambridge University (until 1975) and then with Princeton, where he continued full time as ...(展开全部)

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